Weaver didn’t say anything for a while after he brought Filina into his office. He just busied himself with the pile of papers on his desk.
He didn’t even tell her to sit down, so she just stood there blankly in front of Weaver’s desk.
Filina passed the boredom by looking around the office.
He heard a voice after a while.
“Let me ask you the most basic question.”
Weaver opened his mouth, still keeping his eyes fixed only on his papers.
“Do you have a purpose for applying to the Swordsmanship Academy?”
Filina replied, looking somewhat bored.
“It’s because I want to learn swordsmanship.”
It was a reply she had already said many times.
At this point, she wanted to ask other students. How many times had she explained to others why she wanted to join the Swordsmanship Academy?
Weaver turned his gaze upward as he closed his papers. His eyes were firm as they faced Filina’s red eyes.
“I wasn’t looking for a common response.”
Her eyes widened for a moment at the sound of his low voice, and then she opened her mouth again .
“Well, I want to live…….. would that be an unusual answer?”
Weaver frowned at Filina’s sarcastic voice.
“Because you want to live… ?”
It was an answer he had never heard from any students before.
I had often heard that they wanted to join the academy simply to become stronger, but this was the first time he had heard that she wanted to live.
Moreover, it was somewhat far from the words that would come out of the mouth of a noblewoman.
Weaver opened his mouth and spoke in a heavy tone.
“Did you pass the exam with such desperation with the help of someone?”
Filina had no answer. Then Weaver snickered and spoke in a cold voice.
“If you got in on your own merits, I might have been somewhat persuasive. But now, I can’t relate to you at all.”
Filina bit her lips quietly at his words.
Now Weaver was telling her that if she had passed fair and square on her own merits, he might have turned a blind eye to what her father had done.
But she couldn’t say it with any confidence. If she could go back in time, would she have taken the test with her strength instead of choosing potions?
Unless she was born like Bessie, the barriers were too high for an ordinary woman to pass the exam.
She had to learn swordsmanship skills that could save her life as soon as possible, and she used the potion just for that thought.
Her life would be cut off at any moment……How could she choose to be reasonable like this?
It was the choice she couldn’t afford.
‘I just ……. I just wanted to live …….’
Filina’s red eyes stared coldly at Weaver.
“From the beginning, the examinations of the Swordsmanship Academy were conducted with the exclusion of women from admission, were they not?”
